Captain Scarlett And Her Pirate’s Booty out next week

Gearbox has confirmed rumours about the first slice of downloadable content for Borderlands 2, with Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s Booty due out next Tuesday for around £7.

You can’t actually see her booty in this screenshot

Although it always seemed pretty legit Gearbox has revealed that the leaks earlier in the week for Captain Scarlett And Her Pirate’s Booty are real and that the download will be out on Tuesday, October 16th for 800 Microsoft Points (£6.85). A UK PlayStation 3 price hasn’t been confirmed but it’s likely to be around the same amount.

A new desert settlement called Oasis has also been confirmed, as well as some very obvious nods to sci-fi classics such as Star Wars and Dune.‘You can sense the pirate theme across the landscape, even though there’s no water,’ said Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford to the Associated Press . ‘It’s all dried up. It feels more like Tatooine than an ocean. These bandits have really embraced the pirate lifestyle, and there’s the legend of a treasure. That kicks off this whole adventure that the players can go on.’

Also featuring in the campaign will be new sand worm enemies, a sand skiff ripped straight out of Return of the Jedi, and a new currency called seraph crystals. There’s no trailer yet but once it’s released we’ll update this story.Captain Scarlett is technically the second downloadable extra for the game, after the recent new Mechromancer character. Four story-based downloads are planned in all, to buy separately or via the Borderlands 2 season pass.